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Bashir Ado Ahmad1 \*, Umar Abdullahi Zakariyya1 , Mujaheed Abubakar2 , Musbahu Muhammad Sani1 and Musbahu Adam Ahmad3

1 Department of Biochemistry, Federal University Dutse, Nigeria


\*Address all correspondence to: bashir.ahmad@fud.edu.ng

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